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INDIAN DIASPORA HAS GREATER ROLE TO PLAY DURING AMRIT KAAL

WORKFORCE CAN CONTRIBUTE MORE TO INDIA AND THEIR HOST COUNTRIES
Dr. Gyan Pathak - 2023-01-10 11:35
At conclusion of the 17th three-day Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention (January 8-10) at Indore on Tuesday, majority of 3,500 participants from 70 countries have been dispersing with enthusiasm and hope that Indian diaspora has a greater role to play not only to India’s journey ahead during the Amrit Kaal (2022-2047), but also in their host countries in the present context of economic development.

COVID AFFECTED HEALTH WORKERS’ FAMILIES NEED EMPATHY AND SUPPORT

GOVT AND THE INSTITUTIONS MUST ENSURE PROPER COMPENSATION TO THE CONCERNED
Dr. Arun Mitra - 2023-01-10 11:32
It is to utter to dismay that only about 23.8 % families of the doctors who lost their life fighting COVID-19 have received the insurance amount announced by the Prime Minister under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP). This is as per the information received by Dr Babu K V, an Ophthalmologist from Kannur, Kerala on 26th September 2022 from The New India Assurance Company Ltd. in reply to an RTI filed by him. As per this reply total number of beneficiaries under PMGKP, who died of COVID during 30th March 2020 to 30th September 2022 is 1988 and amount for them comes to be Rs.994 crore. Only 428 beneficiaries have got the benefit so far which amounts to 214 crore rupees.

EMINENT ACADEMICS DECRY CENTRE’S ATTEMPT TO SAFFRONISE HISTORY TEXT BOOKS

81ST SESSION OF INDIAN HISTORY CONGRESS DISCUSSES NEW EDUCATION POLICY
Sulagna Som - 2023-01-09 11:44
Historians Ranabir Chakraborty and Aditya Mukherjee slammed the New Educational Policy of the present government at the Centre at the 81st session of the Indian History Congress, held at the Madras Christian College, Chennai, between 27 and 29 December 2022. They blasted the on-going saffronisation of history text books that are incompatible with the canons of historiography. The burial of India's rich tradition secular historiography is to rewrite Indian history with a saffron bias.

ROW OVER KERALA MINISTER’S REINSTATEMENT

HASTY DECISION FRAUGHT WITH POLITICAL RISK?
P. Sreekumaran - 2023-01-09 11:42
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Was the decision to reinstate Saji Cherian, MLA, as a minister in the Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government in the state hasty? That is the question doing the rounds in Kerala’s political corridors.

INDIA ECONOMY IS ON A REVIVAL MODE BUT NEXT FISCAL WILL BE CHALLENGING

EMPLOYMENT GENERATION REMAINS THE BIGGEST TASK AS JOB MARKET SHRINKS
K R Sudhaman - 2023-01-09 11:37
The preliminary official estimates by Ministry of Statistics has corroborated multilateral and other rating agencies forecast that India’s economic growth would be around 7 per cent in financial year 2022-2023. This only confirms that Indian economy is on a revival mode. The projected GDP growth may be less than 8.7 per cent achieved last financial year. The year 2021-2022 was the first year after Covid Pandemic and the growth looked impressive because of base effect as in the previous 2020-2021, India clocked a negative growth due to lockdown and other disruptions.

RAHUL GANDHI’S BHARAT JODO YATRA IS CONTRIBUTING TO CONGRESS REVIVAL

PARTY MAY FINALLY BE BENEFITTED BY DISSIDENTS RECONCILING WITH THEIR LEADER
Sushil Kutty - 2023-01-09 11:35
Has Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ achieved what it set out to? What was it that Rahul Gandhi wanted to unify? His party went to pieces here, there and everywhere, wherever it had lost elections, and in states where the Congress was robbed of its hard-fought victories by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s central investigative agencies? Then, there were individual Congress leaders, like J&K heavyweight Ghulam Nabi Azad, who took off with a bunch of the like minded, which also left the grand old party broken if not decimated.

SURGING IMPORTS ARE BEHIND INDIA’S GROWING UNEMPLOYMENT

SHARPEST JOB RATE DECINE IS IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR
Nantoo Banerjee - 2023-01-09 11:32
It is rather depressing to note that the unemployment rate in the country reached 8.30 percent in December, the highest over the last 16 months. In urban areas, the unemployment rate exceeded 10 percent. The number of people looking for jobs last month increased to 40.48 percent, the largest in 2022, reported the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy. The demand for jobs far exceeds its supply. The unemployment situation is alarming especially during the current peak season (October-March) of the Indian economy.
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KEEN TO REVIVE THE GLORY OF INDIAN FOOTBALL: AIFF CHIEF KALYAN CHAUBEY

Harpal Singh Bedi - 2023-01-07 17:34
New Delhi: The All-India Football Federation (AIFF) on Saturday unveiled its strategic roadmap with ‘Vision 2047’ which envisages that in the country’s centenary year of independence, it will also emerge as a new powerhouse of Asian football.
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DIVY NANDAN, SAI SANJAY SHARE HONOURS IN MRF F2000

Harpal Singh Bedi - 2023-01-07 13:35
Chennai: Gurugram’s Divy Nandan and Salem's Sai Sanjay claimed double podium apiece with a win and a third place in the two MRF F2000 races on the opening day of the second round of the Indian National Car Racing Championship at the Madras International Circuit here on Saturday.